May 2013
5 posts
naranzarian: History does not disclose the name of... →
naranzarian:
History does not disclose the name of the first black person dragged onto a slave ship, the first black person held in newly constructed prisons, or the first black person forcibly recruited to work on a colonial plantation. But black people have been arriving late ever since, hoping that the…
“…The question … is … located on the level of tolerance or intolerance toward the...”
– zizek (via jujutsu-with-zizek)
“Most spaces identified as radical queer spaces, unless they are explicitly for...”
– Priyank Jindal, from “Sites of Resistance or Sites of Racism?” in That’s Revolting!: Queer Strategies for Resisting Assimilation (via queerandpresentdanger)
April 2013
14 posts
“At this moment it seems that queer visual culture needs to nourish our sense of...”
– José Esteban Muños, Cruising Utopia: The Then and There of Queer Futurity (via qpocalypse)
“It’s part of my queer optimism to say that people are affectively and...”
– Lauren Berlant (via avantbear)
“MF> As far back as I can remember, to want guys was to want relations with...”
– Michel Foucault, Friendship as a Way of Life (via avantbear)
“By portraying the reciprocal derangement of bodies and sequences, K.I.P. offers...”
– Elizabeth Freeman, Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (via avantbear)
“‘Fat’…generally signals a transgression of spatial norms (taking up too much...”
– Elizabeth Freeman, Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories(pg 92-93)
“As one reviewer remarks of (Allyson Mitchell’s) ‘The Fluff Stands Alone,’ I...”
– Elizabeth Freeman (on Allyson Mitchell’s work), Time Binds: Queer Temporalities, Queer Histories (pg 93)
“Solidarity does not assume that our struggles are the same struggles, or that...”
– The Cultural Politics of Emotion by Sara Ahmed (via hciwrc)
“The massive collapse of the father figure. … Modern cynicism epitomizes above all...”
– Paul Verhaeghe (via jujutsu-with-zizek)
March 2013
17 posts
“[D]rag queens can move freely within gay male settings as long as they abide by...”
– Vivane K. Namaste in “Tragic Misreadings: Queer Theory’s Erasure of Transgender Subjectivity” from Invisible LIves: The Erasure of Transsexual and Transgender People (via queerandpresentdanger)
2 tags
“…queer theory is fundamentally about not presuming your object but...”
– Lauren Berlant on what’s queer about her book, Cruel Optimism.
http://societyandspace.com/2013/03/22/interview-with-lauren-berlant/
“…the task of a critical theory is to produce as accurate a knowledge of complex...”
– Stuart Hall ‘The Whites of Their Eyes’ (via thisidlethought)
“Historians have argued [that] the men involved in [many of history’s] same-sex...”
– George Chauncey, Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World 1890-1940 (via mswyrr)
4 tags
“It is often said therefore that the desiring subject is well served by the...”
– Lauren Berlant, Desire/Love (pg 76-77)
“I’m still interested in queer and feminist politics, because I think everything...”
– Lauren Berlant, “David Seitz interviews Lauren Berlant”
http://societyandspace.com/2013/03/22/interview-with-lauren-berlant/ (via avantbear)
“drive” is not driven by the “impossible” quest for the lost object; it is a push...”
– slavoj zizek (via jujutsu-with-zizek)
“What we call love is our hatred of the future; and it is because other people...”
– Leo Bersani & Adam Phillips, Intimacies (via lovevoltaireusapart)
“Faced with the depressing realization that people are fragile and the world...”
– Ellis Hanson, “The Future’s Eve: Reparative Reading After Sedgwick (via avantbear)
“‘I do not really believe in it, it is just part of my culture’ seems...”
– Slavoj Zizek, The Interpassive Subject
jujutsu-with-zizek:
neither Lacan nor Zizek … are talking about actual penises at all. As
the title ‘phallus’ suggests, their point of reference here is a symbol.
Castration is merely the name given to the process by which we enter the
Symbolic Order, the process by which we substitute the actual thing for a
symbol of that thing. In this sense, castration signifies the loss
engendered by...
“…Racial fetishism. The phrase seems virtually redundant to
me now—is there race...”
– Ellis Hanson, “The Future’s Eve: Reparative Reading after Sedgwick” (via avantbear)
I don't believe gay masculinist subcultures are in...
Nor do I. But I don’t believe gay masculinist subcultures are monolithic either…..
February 2013
19 posts
“New reflection on homo-ness could lead us to a salutary devalorizing of...”
– Leo Bersani, HOMOS (1995)
“Society, however, does not see all fat as being equal. A man can be much, much...”
– S. Bear Bergman, “Part-Time Fatso” (via wretchedoftheearth)
“If your zone of privacy requires the support of an elaborate network of state...”
– Michael Warner, The Trouble with Normal (via ohirememberdoingthetimewarp)
“White men have been raised to believe that they’re God; most gay white men are...”
– Audre Lorde, Sadomasochism: Not About Condemnation (via zeram)
“People are uncomfortable with sexuality that is not made for male consumption.”
– Erykah Badu (via lezziemcguire)
“The hysteric wants to be the phallus, the signifier of desire, not the object of...”
– “The Later Lacan” (via jujutsu-with-zizek)
